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ReadyNAS NV+ RND 4000 relocating hard drives to Netgear RN21400-100NES
Good Day
I had a ReadyNAS NV+ RND 4000, but it was struck by lightening and so the machine does not work anymore, I have had the hard drives tested and was told they are fine. My insurance is replacing it with the ReadyNas 21400-100NES, I want to know will I be able to take my hard drives from my old Nas and put them into this new one be able to ready my data on them. I cannot loose the data on the 4 hard drives. Or is there a way of backing up that data to and external drive first? I do not have the old Nas machine anymore as the insurance took it for scrap. If i put the hard drives into the new Nas will the Nas 21400 format the hard drives automatically?
Thanks.
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RyanUeck01 wrote:
Good Day
I want to know will I be able to take my hard drives from my old Nas and put them into this new one be able to ready my data on them.
You can't just migrate the disks - they are formatted very differently.
There is way to offload the data with help from support. You will need enough storage to copy the data - this just gives you a way to mount the volume so it can be copied. http://kb.netgear.com/29876/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-1-or-RAIDiator-5-3-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
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